Native Indian Soldiers
a) Joseph Constantine Stadler after Charles Hamilton Smith, Native Troops in the East India Company???s Service a Sergeant of Light Infantry and a Private of the Madras Sepoys, London: Colnaghi and co, 1st March 1815
Original hand colored aquatint mounted on board
Print Size: 9.6 x 8 in (24 x 20 cm)
Sheet Size: 10.6 x 8.5 in (26.9 x 21.5 cm)
b) Joseph Constantine Stadler after Charles Hamilton Smith, Native Troops E. India Company's Service. 1. Troops of the Bodyguard of the Gov.r General. 2. Private of the Bengal Regular Cavalry. 3. Private of the Java Volunteers, London: Colnaghi and co, 1st March 1815
Original hand colored aquatint mounted on board
Print Size: 10 x 8.6 in (25.2 x 21.5 cm)
Sheet Size: 11 x 9 in (27.9 x 22.8 cm)
(Set of two)
These works will be shipped unframed
NON-EXPORTABLE
The armies of the East India Company were recruited from Indian peoples that had their own long traditions of soldiering on the sub-continent. They combined their own military skills with western weapons and the military training provided by the Company. The figures depicted here include cavalrymen from the Bodyguard of the Governor General and the Bengal Regular Cavalry, alongside a private of the Java Volunteers.
From Charles Hamilton Smith's 'Costumes of the Army of the British Empire, according to the last regulations 1812', published by Colnaghi and Company, 1812-1815. (Source: National Army Museum)